GSA ponders reopening e-mail contract

The General Services Administration hasn't decided yet whether it will reopen the competition for a cloud-computing contract after the Government Accountability Office ruled against the agency in a bid protest.

“We are currently reviewing the GAO’s recommendation that GSA clarify the requirements language in the two sustained protest grounds,” Steven Kempf, commissioner of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, said in a statement.

“We conclude that GSA has failed to proffer an adequate explanation for limiting non-U.S. based data centers to those countries listed as designated countries,” GAO wrote.

GAO said GSA should amend the solicitation to reflect its actual needs concerning non-U.S. data center locations. GAO also sustained another protest regarding a clarification of a term in the solicitation.

Kempf said GSA officials will “make a decision on corrective action following a thorough review of the GAO’s decision.”

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